Sentences with phrase «slowed the warming caused»

A drier lower stratosphere may simply have slowed the warming caused by the thickening greenhouse gas blanket.

Not exact matches

In the particularly difficult question of global warming, thus far most economists have argued that it will be more efficient to respond to the problems caused by global warming as they occur than to make serious efforts to reduce it, since these efforts would slow economic growth.

The causes of the warming remain debated, but Liu and his team homed in on the melting glacial water that poured into oceans as the ice receded, paradoxically slowing the ocean current in the North Atlantic that keeps Europe from freezing over.

This sandy heap actually causes the oozing ice to slow, pile up and thicken slightly behind it — providing a buffer that may stabilize the ice sheet in the face of those warm currents.

But a study out today in Biology Letters finds that warmer temperatures seem to slow transmission of malaria - causing parasites, by reducing their infectiousness.

Since methane can cause about 20 times as much atmospheric warming as carbon dioxide, curbing methane would help slow global warming.

Natural geochemical processes that result in the slow buildup of atmospheric carbon dioxide may have caused past geologic intervals of global warming through the greenhouse effect

As it does so, it oxidises to CO2, dissolving in seawater or reaching the atmosphere as CO2 which causes far slower warming, but can nevertheless contribute to ocean acidification.

In the case of warming caused by a disproportionate increase in atmospheric CO2 (compared with oceanic CO2), an increase in temperatures only slows down the rate at which CO2 is absorbed by the oceans.

If human - caused climate change is to be slowed enough to avert the worst consequences of global warming, carbon dioxide emissions from coal - fired power plants and other pollutants will have to be captured and injected deep into the ground to prevent them from being released into the atmosphere.

As the globe warms, the slow rise in ocean levels has caused great concern.

(it's quicker to wait for the car to warm up first, otherwise the aircon being on hot will cause the engine to heat up at a slower rate.)

I understand that idea, I just don't understand how natural variables could have caused 2000 - 2008 to slow the warming.

«Note: LOTI provides a more realistic representation of the global mean trends than dTs below; it slightly underestimates warming or cooling trends, since the much larger heat capacity of water compared to air causes a slower and diminished reaction to changes.»

If the net forcing increased for several decades, then leveled off 15 - 20 years ago, wouldn't that cause the rate of warming to level off too, not to slow down?

«In a scenario of zeroed CO2 and sulfate aerosol emissions, whether the warming induced by specified constant concentrations of non-CO2 greenhouse gases could slow the CO2 decline following zero emissions or even reverse this trend and cause CO2 to increase over time is assessed.

Or are they missing natural influences that can cause wide swings in ice and temperature, thereby dwarfing the slow background warming?

Simple physics dictates that with less sea ice there is magnified warming of the Arctic due to powerful albedo feedback; this in turn reduces the equator to pole temperature gradient which slows the jet stream winds causing them to become more meridional; this combined with 4 % more water vapor in the atmosphere (compared to 3 decades ago) is leading to much more extremes in weather.

I do indeed presume that the rapid warming of the Arctic is already affecting the Jet Stream, and thereby affecting the Northern Hemisphere's weather, and that continued rapid warming of the Arctic will cause the Jet Stream to slow and weaken to the point of collapse, possibly in the not - too - distant future.

The full quote was «In a long, and interesting speech, he characterized what the U.S. and other industrialized nations need to do to combat global warming this way: «We just have to slow down our economy and cut back our greenhouse gas emissions «cause we have to save the planet for our grandchildren.

While international teams of scientists agreed long ago that human activity is the primary cause of current warming, members of the public and some politicians have been slow to embrace the findings.

Research on the causes of slowed surface air warming is of course ongoing.

As it does so, it oxidises to CO2, dissolving in seawater or reaching the atmosphere as CO2 which causes far slower warming, but can nevertheless contribute to ocean acidification.

-LRB-- NAO) This sea ice then melts in the Sub Polar Atlantic, releasing fresh water into the sub - polar Atlantic waters, which in turn impedes the formation of NADW, which slows down the thermohaline circulation causing warm air not to be brought up from the lower latitudes as far north as previous while in lessening amounts.

A new study published in Nature Climate Change found that by taking into account the short - term changes caused by factors like El Niño and La Niña cycles, they could accurately forecast the slowed warming at the surface several years in advance.

My opinion expressed elsewhere is that almost all the temperature changes we observe over periods of less than a century are caused by cyclical changes in the rate of energy emission from the oceans with the solar effect only providing a slow background trend of warming or cooling for several centuries at a time.

Some conference speakers decried Trump's move to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate accord, saying the international agreement to reduce carbon emissions offers the clearest road map for slowing the global warming that's causing ice to melt and seas to rise.

The slowed surface warming is due in large part to changes in ocean cycles, particularly in the Pacific Ocean, causing more efficient ocean heat uptake, thus leaving less heat to warm surface temperatures.

What I am not clear on is what has changed in the last few years to cause more heat to be captured by the oceans and less in the atmosphere with the resultant slower rate of surface or atmospheric warming.

And we also know that the correlation between global average temperature and atmospheric CO2 is statistically not very robust, so that something else must also «be at work» to cause the gradual warming (or «slow thaw», as you've dubbed it).

However, the tide - gauge literature data shows the current, rather slow but steady as opposed to accelerating, rate started in 1850, long before CO2 warming could have been the cause.

As a result of the warming Arctic, the jet streams become wavier and slower, causing freakish weather all across the Northern Hemisphere.

If we can prevent this small coastal plug on the edge of the Wilkes shelf from melting, all is well, but once it has melted, there seems no way of preventing the whole shelf from a self - sustaining melt, even if miracles somehow slowed the current emissions causing global warming.

The widespread mainstream media focus on the slowed global surface warming has led some climate scientists like Trenberth and Fasullo to investigate its causes and how much various factors have contributed to the so - called «pause» or «hiatus.»

Again, there is a real debate about the pace and rhythm of global warming, and about the degree to which it has been caused (or can be slowed) by human activity.

The orbital changes that caused the ice ages are far too weak and slow to cause a warming as rapid as the current one.

Several studies from this year show that the slowdown could be caused by a natural cycle in the Atlantic or Pacific that caused temperatures to rise more in the 1980s and 1990s but that has slowed or stopped global warming now.

Wouldn't it be ironic if in the interest of global warming we mandated massive switches to energy, which is a finite resource, which slows the winds down, which causes the temperature to go up?

Global warming appear to have slightly slowed in the last decade despite record greenhouse gas emissions, and this cooling pollution could be the cause.

Though there are many natural causes of global warming and climate change, human interaction can help slow the negative impacts to our atmosphere.

There's mostly consensus on what's causing global warming (we are), as well as how quickly we need to work to slow it down (very quickly).

The slow rate reflects that there has been little room to grow, because the consensus on human - caused global warming has generally always been over 90 % since 1991.

No one knows for sure what caused the little ice age or for how many more centuries the slow warming trend will continue.

The study, published in Nature Geoscience found that humans have caused at least three - quarters (74 percent) of current warming, while also determining that warming has actually been slowed down by atmospheric aerosols, including some pollutants, which reflect sunlight back into space.

Therefore, the enhanced ocean heat sink is the main cause for the current slowing in surface warming.

A full reading of Tsonis and Swanson's research shows that internal variability from climate shifts merely cause temporary slow downs or speeding up of the long - term warming trend.

To summarise the arguments presented so far concerning ice - loss in the arctic basin, at least four mechanisms must be recognised: (i) a momentum - induced slowing of winter ice formation, (ii) upward heat - flux from anomalously warm Atlantic water through the surface low ‐ salinity layer below the ice, (iii) wind patterns that cause the export of anomalous amounts of drift ice through the Fram Straits and disperse pack - ice in the western basin and (iv) the anomalous flux of warm Bering Sea water into the eastern Arctic of the mid 1990s.

If you believe, as I do, that radiative forcing tends to cause global mean temperature increase, then it is a contradiction to believe that future rates of warming will be higher when increases of radiative forcing are slower than they were in the past.

Warmer seae were caused by slowed up Gulf Stream no longer transferring much heat toward the north pole --

Jacobson first showed in 2000 that black carbon was the second - leading cause of global warming after carbon dioxide in terms of radiative forcing and, in 2002, that its control was the most effective method of slowing warming.